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Taras Grescoe has written books that have changed the way we look at illicit substances, in The Devil''s Picnic , and how we think about the world''s seafood, in Bottomfeeder . Now, as oil prices soar and suburbs continue to sprawl, Grescoe hits the commuter road in a global quest to understand…

Winner of the 2000 Quebec Writers'' Federation First Book Award and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction A hip, enlightening portrait of a place most Canadians find baffling: Quebec without the politics. Why do three million Quebecers tune in the same absurd sitcom every week? How did they get…

Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution "I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often…

Hilariously informative: the travel book of the year Where do you go when there’s nowhere left to go? Now that seven hundred million tourists leave home every year, there doesn’t seem to be a single patch of earth untouched by the tourist industry. Lager louts vomit on Mediterranean…

Just when opting for omega-three-rich seafood is recognized as one of the healthiest dietary choices a person can make, the news seems to be full of stories about mercury-laden tuna, shrimp contaminated with antibiotics and collapsing fish stocks. In a world of endangered cod, pirate-caught…

Watch a video trailer for The Devil’s Picnic (Requires Flash Player. May take a few minutes to load.) Award-winning writer Taras Grescoe admits that he has alwaysbeen fascinated by the forbidden. Never one to deny his desires, he set out on aglobal journey, determined to track down the foods and…